Kubera is the God of wealth & is known as Dhanpati . He is also the king of
Yakshaâ€™s (the guardians of Earth). As the God of wealth and material, his responsibilities are to distribute them
while creating wealth is the responsibility of Lakshmi. Kubera is not an important deity and his images are very rarely seen, though he is
frequently referred to in the epics. Kubera is also known as
Yaksha-raja (king of the yakshas), Iccha-vasu (who has wealth at will),
Nara- raja (lord over men) and Ratna-garbha (womb of jewels). Kubera is one god
that all the three religions of India namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism
all claim to be their own.

Kubera's domains are all in the high Himalayas, partly because he is the guardian of the
North, but also because mountains are the repositories of mineral wealth. Kubera watches over
the earth's storehouse of gold, silver, jewels, pearls and nine NIDHIS (special treasures).

Kubera is physically envisioned as a dwarf with an ugly and deformed body. His skin is white
and he has three legs. He has a set of only eight teeth.Â Since Kubera was so deformed, he had
difficulty in moving around. Brahma took pity and ordered Vishwakarma , the architect of the
gods and a god in his own right, to build the disabled god a chariot. Vishwakarma conceived
and built Pushpak , an aerial chariot which moves of its own accord and which is so large
that it can contain a whole city. Kubera flies in this fantastic chariot and throws down
jewels and other precious objects to people on the ground to aid them with averting poverty.

How Kuber became God?

There are two versions of how Kubera was elevated to the stature of a god.

The first version postulates that Kubera performed stringent austerities for thousands of years
and, as a reward, was promoted by Go Brahma.

AnotherÂ version is that one day Kubera had gone to rob a temple of Shiva. During the
robbery Kubera's taper had somehow been blown out. No matter how hard the dwarf tried he
could not relight the taper. Nevertheless, he persisted with his efforts no matter how
nefarious they were and, on the tenth attempt, he succeeded. Shiva is a benign god who is
often pleased by the most illogical of efforts. This perseverance of Kubera's in his
attempt to rob the god's temple won him much admiration from Shiva who subsequently granted
the dwarf access to the Hindu pantheon of gods.

Kuber yantra

Chanting of Kuber Mantra blesses the worshipper with money and prosperity by drawing
new avenues and sources of income and wealth. Mantra of Kubera helps to increase the
flow of funds and the ability to accumulate wealth. Kubera Mantra is as follows
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One of the most powerful yantras now extant, the Kuber Yantra attracts prosperity
and money into your life. It is a highly complex yantra
combining a lotus formation of concentric
circles with a central six pointed star which has within it a 3x3 magic square
containing numbers which when added up in any direction that you may choose always
total 72 which further reduces itself to the sacred numeral 9. The outer boundary wall
of the yantra, a miniature cosmos, has large liminal gaps, (they are thresholds of
potential, of awareness, or transformations), as Kubera is a dual energy deity,
with an unusually powerful and harmonious blend of male and female energies. These
cannot be restricted and hence the 'open' nature of the yantra. In large Kuber Yantras
however there is enough space to draw a convoluted outer wall with multiple layers.
This keeps the liminal gaps active but also filters the energy generated by the
Yantra from rushing outwards in an uncontrolled and promiscuous manner.

Kuber and Ravana

Kubera is also the son of Sage Vishrava. So Kubera has three famous half-brothers, Ravana,
Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana. All three find mention in the great Indian epic story Ramayana.

His brother Ravana, by practicing austerities, obtained from Shiva the boon of invincibility
and so was able to defeat Kubera and to seize and retain Lanka and the chariot, Pushpak. As
Lanka could not be restored to Kubera, Vishwakarma, the god of architecture, built him a
palace in fabulous hidden city in the Himalayas called Alkapuri, which has all the stored up
wealth of the Earth. This is close to the abode of Shiva, Mount Kailasha.
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Kuber and Parvati

When Kubera went to Mount Kailasa once to have a darshan of Lord Shiva, he found Him
with Goddess Parvathi. Kubera was stunned to see the splendour and beauty of Goddess
Parvathi. He felt sorry that he had not worshipped such a fine goddess for so long and
one of his eyes shut itself.

Goddess Parvathi got angry that Kubera was winking at Her, and looking at Her with evil
intention. She made his eye burst. Kubera lost sight in one eye and was also cursed that
he would always look ugly. Lord Kubera pleaded with Lord Siva to forgive him and explained
that he had not seen the Goddess with any evil intention. Lord Siva left the choice to
His consort. Goddess Parvathi forgave Kubera and let the eye grow back, but it was smaller
than the other one. Kubera was rewarded by Lord Siva with the post of being one of the
guards of the eight directions - the North. The Goddess made him the lord of wealth
and material.

Kuber and Ganesha

We should never take undue pride in our material or spiritual accomplishments. The old
saying "Pride always leads to a fall." is proved true in the following story.

Kubera invited Shiva and Parvati to dinner wishing to show off his riches. But, the couple
denied Kubera's request and said that he could feed Ganesha instead. Kubera laughed and
said 'I can feed thousands of children like this."

Ganesha went to his palace and sat down to eat. He started eating all the food placed in
front of him. As was the custom, more and more food was served to him, as he did not say
that he had enough. Soon there was no more food in the palace and so Kubera ordered his
troops to get more food from the surrounding villages. But Ganesha continued eating and
there was no more food to be found. Still very hungry, Ganesha started eating all the
furniture.

Kubera became very frightened. Ganesha told him, "You promised my parents you will feed me.
Now, I have to eat you up as I am still very hungry ". Kubera ran away and pleaded with Shiva
to save him from Ganesha. Shiva asked Kubera to give up his pride and serve Ganesha a handful
of rice.

Kubera went back to his palace. By this time, Ganesha's stomach had become very huge but the
child was still hungry. When Kubera served a cup of rice with humility, Ganesha's hunger was
satisfied

Kuber and Buddhism

Kubera is also worshipped by the Buddhists, where he is looked upon as the guardian
of the North. His characteristic symbol is the mongoose, often shown vomiting jewels.
In the Buddhist pantheon he is also known as Jambhala, probably from the jambhara
(lemon) he carries in his hand. He is always represented corpulent and covered with
jewels. His right foot is generally pendant and supported by a lotus-flower on which
is a conch shell.

Jambhala is the Buddhist form of the Hindu god of wealth, Kubera. He is fat and covered
with jewels and holds a mongoose in one hand and a flaming jewel in the other